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XF-108: The Fighter Jet Designed to Strike Russian Bombers in a War
The XF-108 Rapier, a planned Mach 3 interceptor with an innovative internal rotary missile launcher, was designed to counter ...
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The F-19 Stealth Fighter Never Flew for the Air Force
The F-19 Stealth Fighter is a retro combat flight simulator game on Steam, originally released in 1988. Players pilot a ...
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The F-35 Fighter is Now NATO's Nuclear Bomber
The Royal Netherlands Air Force (RNLAF) has announced that its F-35A Lightning II stealth fighters have officially assumed ...
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500,000 Dead or Wounded: Putin's War in Ukraine Is a Disaster for Russia
Ukrainian resistance and accurate targeting have resulted in massive Russian casualties, estimated between 300,000 to 500,000 ...
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Dragon M47: Fire-Breathing Tank-Killer Missile (250,000 Built in Total)
The M47 Dragon, an anti-tank guided missile (ATGM), entered U.S. Army and Marine Corps service in 1975, after its prototype ...
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NGAD: The $300 Million Fighter the U.S. Air Force Doesn't Need?
The United States is developing the sixth-generation fighter under the Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) program, set to ...
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J-10C vs. F-16V: Which Fighter Has the Upper Hand in the Taiwan Strait?
C, known as the "Vigorous Dragon," is a key component of the country's air force, frequently patrolling the Taiwan Strait to ...
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The Melting Point: High Command and War in the 21st Century
A new book by former CENTCOM Commander Kenneth McKenzie Jr. sheds new light on the final days of the Afghan government and ...
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B-52 Stratofortress: The U.S. Air Force Bomber That Is Just Too Old? No Way
That wasn't the case months back, however, for a pair of United States Air Force B-52 Stratofortress bombers assigned to the ...
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Flying Aircraft Carriers: The Navy's Biggest Mistake?
In the 1930s, the U.S. Navy operated flying aircraft carriers in the form of rigid airships USS Akron and USS Macon. History ...
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Mike-Class: The Russian Submarine Sunk with Nuclear Weapons
The Project-685 K-278 Komsomolets, known as the Mike-class by NATO, was an advanced Soviet submarine designed with a titanium ...
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FB-22: The U.S. Air Force Could Have Built an F-22 Bomber
The U.S. Air Force once considered developing a bomber variant of the F-22 Raptor, known as the FB-22, in the early 2000s. It ...